- I'm not going to hold back. Putin is a dictator who kills women and children. And he will do so until he is forced to change his ways," -. Estonia's prime minister told Delphi in response to a US request to use more restrained rhetoric regarding Russia that flirting with dictators only leads to humiliation, and freedom in such a case would still be lost. "Estonia, like the other Baltic states, takes a clear position regarding the threat from Russia. We have taken it in the past and we will continue to take it," he said. "Adequate threat assessment - and calling a wolf a wolf, not a forest animal - is.